[SOLVED] RHEL5 Apache Directory Listing for a directory

thorinn · 02-01-2010, 03:35 PM

Hey guys, newbie that needs some help. I have RHEL5 with apache installed and running. I have a directory off of / called software that I would like to have show up as a directory listing so if I go to http://myserver.mynetwork.com/software I get the directory listing.

I have tried searching around and nothing seems to work for me. So out of the box how do I get this to work? My server properly resolves to myserver.mynetwork.com so I am good there.

Need some step-by-step hand holding here...

Thanks!
Mike

kbp · 02-01-2010, 03:44 PM

You'll need to post your /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf so we can see what you already have configured

cheers

thorinn · 02-01-2010, 04:40 PM

No problem here you go!

Anytime I try to go the url I get 404 not found.

kbp · 02-01-2010, 06:08 PM

Try adding this to the end:

Code:

<Directory "/software">
        Options +Indexes
        AllowOverride None
	Order allow,deny
        Allow from all
</Directory>

An extra note: if you have selinux enabled, it will prevent access to /software. You can see if selinux is in enforcing mode by running 'getenforce', if the result is 'enforcing' then you'll need to one of 2 things:

Code:

chcon -R --reference=/var/www/html /software

or

Code:

setenforce 0
edit /etc/sysconfig/selinux and change 
'SELINUX=enforcing' to 'SELINUX=permissive'

cheers

DrLove73 · 02-02-2010, 04:52 AM

Following will relax/lower your SELinux security, so if you need your server to use maximum of security available, avoid it:

Quote:

Originally Posted by kbp

setenforce 0
edit /etc/sysconfig/selinux and change
'SELINUX=enforcing' to 'SELINUX=permissive'

thorinn · 02-02-2010, 08:14 AM

Sorry guys, nothing. I still get 404 not found. The requested URL /software was not found on this server.

Apache/2.2.3 (red hat) server at myserver Port 80.

I verifed getenforce and shows disabled. My firewall allows www (http).

I am just trying to get to this url from the Firefox on the local machine.

I also tried http://localhost/software and same thing. If I ping localhost I do get a response back localhost.localdomain (127.0.0.1)

At the end of httpd.conf I put in:

<Directory "/software">
Options +Indexes
AllowOverride None
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>

and saved the file and restarted the httpd service.

Thanks!

DrLove73 · 02-02-2010, 08:31 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by thorinn

I have a directory off of / called software that I would like to have show up as a directory listing

is that path /var/www/html/software or /software ? Only the first path will be visible on your server. If you have second path, then create symlink to /var/www/html/software .

thorinn · 02-02-2010, 08:56 AM

Thanks DrLove,

Well I went into /var/www/html and did a ln -s /software which created my link so now I can cd into /var/www/html/software.

If I try to go open the browser and go to http://mymachine.mynetwork.com/software I get a slightly different error.

I still get the 404 Not Found
the requested URL /software was not found on this server.

Additionally, a 404 not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErroDocument to handle the request.

thorinn · 02-02-2010, 09:01 AM

Nevermind!! I did a service restart, reopened firefox and it works!!

Thanks DrLove!!